Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presided at the press conference, but Politician Truman made the news. Like a man itching to peel off his coat and get into a backyard brawl, he announced that he was out to beat a Democrat who had obstructed his policies in Congress. His target: conservative Representative Roger Caldwell Slaughter of Missouri's Fifth District, onetime neighbor of County Judge Harry Truman and now a candidate for renomination in the August 6 primary (TIME, July...
With one blunt issue-drawing comment Politician Truman turned a local Missouri scrap into a national political row in the faltering Democratic party (see Political Notes). Said Harry Truman of Congressman Slaughter: If he's right, I'm wrong...
...fight. Yes, he had talked it over with Kansas City's Democratic Boss Jim Pendergast (nephew and heir of Harry Truman's political mentor and sometime convict, the late Tom Pendergast). Yes, he had encouraged Jim Pendergast to throw his organization's support to one of Slaughter's two opponents: a politically unknown, young (37) lawyer named Axtell...
...Kansas City the President's declaration of war brought no cheering from Pendergast "Goats." They well knew that Roger Slaughter (a "Rabbit" of the Shannon faction) was the strongest candidate. Now they were saddled with Axtell. and they gave him only an outside chance...
...boys in the back room were thinking ahead. The Fifth District, taking in Kansas City's "silk stocking" South Side, has never been a Democratic stronghold. The Boss's slap at Slaughter was irrevocable; with the Democrats split into factions, the Republican candidate might easily win in November...